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   Jun 7th
    2012
Dean's scholarship awarded
The Dean's scholarship of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of Ottawa has been awarded.

 May 24th
     2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "An Online Shadowed Clustering Algorithm Applied to Risk Visualization in Territorial Security" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA 2012).

   Mar 22th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2012), Hangzhou, China.

   Feb 21th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "A Response-Aware Risk Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia.

   Feb 13th
    2012
Successful PhD thesis defense
Rafael has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Towards Fault Reactiveness in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Carrier Robots"

   Feb 7th
    2012
NSERC IRDF Fellowship awarded
Industrial Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.




 
Publication Record
 
Published books (2)
 
Ajith Abraham, Rafael Falcon, Rafael Bello “Rough Set Theory: A True Landmark in Data Analysis”, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 174/2009, 324 p., Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-89920-4. More Info... [BibTeX]
 
Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk “Granular Computing: at the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets”, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 224/2008, 335 p., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-540- 76972-9. More Info... [BibTeX]
 
Journal papers (5)
 
Rafael Falcon, Marcio Almeida, Amiya Nayak and Rafael Bello (2012) “System-Level Fault Diagnosis with Dynamic Mesh Optimization”. Computing and Systems, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 203-220 [][BibTeX]
 

Rafael Falcon, Xu Li and Amiya Nayak (2011) “Carrier-based Focused Coverage Formation in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks”. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 56 No. 10, pp. 2406 - 2417. [][BibTeX]
 


Benoît Depaire, Rafael Falcon, Koen Vanhoof and Geert Wets (2011) “PSO Driven Collaborative Clustering: a Clustering Algorithm for Ubiquitous Environments”. Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol. 15 No. 1/2011, pp. 49 - 68. [][BibTeX]
 


Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Falcon, Luigi Gallo, Jechang Jeong and Il Hong Suh (2009) “Single Field Deinterlacing Scheme using Edge Direction Vectors in Interlaced Sequences”. Optical Engineering, Vol. 48 No. 6 June 2009, pp. 1 - 10. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Falcon, Donghyung Kim, Rokkyu Lee and Jechang Jeong (2008) “Application of Bayesian Belief Network in Reliable Analysis for Video Deinterlacing”. IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 54 No. 1 February 2008, pp. 123 - 130. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Book chapters (7)
 
Rafael Falcon, Amiya Nayak and Ivan Stojmenovic (2012) “Robot-Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Applications and Future Challenges” In: Stefano Basagni, Marco Conti, Silvia Giordano and Ivan Stojmenovic (eds) “Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: the Cutting Edge Directions”, Chapter 21, Wiley, To appear.
 


Rafael Falcon, Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Bello, Jechang Jeong (2009) “Rough Clustering with Partial Supervision” In: Ajith Abraham, Rafael Falcon, Rafael Bello (eds) “Rough Set Theory: A True Landmark in Data Analysis”, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol 174/2009, pp. 137-161, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Rafael Bello, Yudel Gómez, Yailé Caballero, Ann Nowe, Rafael Falcon (2009) “Rough Sets and Evolutionary Computation to Solve the Feature Selection Problem” In: Ajith Abraham, Rafael Falcon, Rafael Bello (eds) “Rough Set Theory: A True Landmark in Data Analysis”, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol 174/2009, pp. 235-260, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Falcon, Jechang Jeong (2008) “Rough Set Approach to Video Deinterlacing Systems” In: Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk (eds) “Granular Computing: at the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets”, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 224/2008, pp. 143-160, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Yanet Rodríguez, Rafael Falcon, Alain Varela, María M García (2008) “Learning Membership Functions for an Associative Fuzzy Neural Network” In: Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk (eds) “Granular Computing: at the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets”, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 224/2008, pp. 163-173, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Leticia Arco, Rafael Bello, Yailé Caballero, Rafael Falcon (2008) “Rough Text Assisting Text Mining: Focus on Documents Clustering Validity” In: Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk (eds) “Granular Computing: at the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets”, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 224/2008, pp. 245-265, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Falcon, Jechang Jeong (2008) “Fuzzy Rule-Based Direction- Oriented Resampling Algorithm in High Definition Display” In: Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon, Witold Pedrycz, Janusz Kacprzyk (eds) “Granular Computing: at the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets”, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 224/2008, pp. 287-305, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Magazine papers (1)
 
Xu Li, Rafael Falcon, Amiya Nayak and Ivan Stojmenovic (2012) “Servicing Wireless Sensor Networks by Mobile Robots”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol 50 No. 7, pp. 147-154. [pdf][BibTeX]



Conference papers (27)
 
Rafael Falcon, Rami Abielmona and Amiya Nayak (2012) “An Online Shadowed Clustering Algorithm Applied to Risk Visualization in Territorial Security”, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), Ottawa, Canada, to appear. [pdf][BibTeX]

Rafael Falcon, Hai Liu, Amiya Nayak and Ivan Stojmenovic (2012) “Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Hangzhou, China, May 16-18, 2012, pp. 150 - 157. [pdf][BibTeX]

Rafael Falcon and Rami Abielmona (2012) “A Response-Aware Risk Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations”, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012, pp. 1540 - 1547 [pdf][BibTeX]


Rafael Falcon, Xu Li, Amiya Nayak and Ivan Stojmenovic (2012) “A Harmony-Seeking Firefly Swarm to the Periodic Replacement of Damaged Sensors by a Team of Mobile Robots”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012, pp. 6436-6440. [pdf][BibTeX]

Rafael Falcon, Rami Abielmona and Amiya Nayak (2011) “An Evolving Risk Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA), Ottawa, Canada, September 19-21, 2012, pp. 1 - 6. [pdf][BibTeX]

Rafael Falcon, Marcio Almeida and Amiya Nayak (2011) “Fault Identification with Binary Adaptive Fireflies in Parallel and Distributed Systems”, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 5 - 8, 2011, pp. 1359 - 1366. [pdf][BibTeX]

Rafael Falcon, Benoit Depaire and An Caris (2011) “The One-Commodity Traveling Salesman Problem with Selective Pickup and Delivery”, 25th Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society (ORBEL 25), Ghent, Belgium. [pdf][BibTeX]

Rafael Falcon, Marcio Almeida, Amiya Nayak and Rafael Bello (2011) “Reliable Fault Detection in Diagnosable Systems with Dynamic Mesh Optimization”, Proceedings at the International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics, Havana, Cuba. [pdf][BibTeX]


Rafael Falcon, Xu Li, Amiya Nayak and Ivan Stojmenovic (2010) “The One-Commodity Traveling Salesman Problem with Selective Pickup and Delivery: an Ant Colony Approach”, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23 2010, pp. 4326-4333. [pdf][BibTeX]



Rafael Falcon, Marcio Almeida and Amiya Nayak (2010) “A Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Approach to Fault Diagnosis in Parallel and Distributed Systems”, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23 2010, pp. 41-48. [pdf][BibTeX]



Rafael Falcon, Xu Li and Amiya Nayak (2010) “Carrier-Based Coverage Augmentation in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks”, 7th Int'l Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN, colocated with IEEE 30th Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems), Genoa, Italy, pp. 234-239. [pdf][BibTeX]



Kangjun Lee, Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Falcon, Changwoo Ha and Jechang Jeong (2009) “An Adaptive Fast Multiple Reference Frame Selection Algorithm for H.264/AVC Using Reference Region Data”, In: IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation, Tampere, Finland, pp. 93 – 96. [][BibTeX]



Rafael Falcon, Gwanggil Jeon, Kangjun Lee, Rafael Bello and Jechang Jeong (2009) “Mechanisms of Partial Supervision in Rough Clustering Approaches”, In: P. Wen et al (eds.) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT) 2009, Gold Coast, Australia, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5589, pp. 38 – 45. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Rafael Falcon, Benoît Depaire, Koen Vanhoof and Ajith Abraham (2008) “Towards a Suitable Reconciliation of the Findings in Collaborative Fuzzy Clustering”. 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications – ISDA 2008, Taiwan, IEEE CS Press, USA, ISBN 978-0-7695-3382-7, pp. 652-657. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Amilkar Puris, Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon and Yudel Gomez (2008) “Feature Selection through Dynamic Mesh Optimization”, In: J. Ruiz-Shulcloper and W. Kropatsch (eds), “Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5197, pp. 348- 355, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Falcon, Joohyun Lee and Jechang Jeong (2008) “Spatio-Temporal Edge-Based Weighted Fuzzy Filtering for Providing Interlaced Video on a Progressive Display”. In: IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Hong Kong, June 1-6, pp. 258 – 263. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Rafael Falcon, Rafael Bello, Gwanggil Jeon, Jechang Jeong (2007) “Learning
Collaboration Links in a Collaborative Fuzzy Clustering Environment
” In: 6th Mexican International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 4827 pp. 483-495 (2007). [][BibTeX]
 
 
María Chávez, Gladis Casas, Rafael Falcon, Jorge Moreira, Ricardo Grau (2007) “Building Fine Bayesian Networks Aided by PSO-based Feature Selection” In: 6th Mexican International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence Vol. 4827 pp. 441-451 (2007). [][BibTeX]
 
 
Gwanggil Jeon, Rafael Falcon, Rafael Bello, Donghyung Kim, Jechang Jeong (2007) “Application of Bayesian Network for Fuzzy Rule-Based Video Deinterlacing” In: D. Mery and L. Rueda (Eds) PSIVT 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4872 pp. 867-878 (2007). [][BibTeX]
 
 
Yanet Rodríguez, Rafael Falcon, Alain Varela, María M García (2006) “Learning Membership Functions for an Associative Fuzzy Neural Network”, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Fuzzy and Rough Sets (ISFUROS 2006), Editorial Feijoo, ISBN 959-250-308-7, 67 – 68. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Rafael Falcon, Aylín Labrador, Ángel M. Navarro, Yanet Rodríguez, María M. García (2006) “Módulo de Experimentación Combinatoria para la Evaluación de Modelos Neuroborrosos Asociativos”, Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference UNICA 2006, ISBN 959-16-0473-4, 18 – 19. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Yanet Rodríguez, Xiomara Cabrera, Rafael Falcon, Zenaida Herrera, Ana M Contreras, María M. García (2005) “Artificial Intelligence Hybrid Model Applied to Wastewater Treatment” In: Lecture Series in Computer and Computational Sciences, Vol. 2, Brill (2005) 132 – 135. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Yanet Rodríguez, Xiomara Cabrera, Rafael Falcon, Zenaida Herrera, Ana M Contreras, María M García (2005) “CBR-ANN Hybrid Model to Optimize the Sequence of Wastewater Treatments” In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology for Environmental Engineering (ITEE 2005), Shaker Verlag, ISBN 38322-4362-3. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Rafael Falcon, Yanet Rodríguez, María M García, Rafael Bello, Alain Varela, Yasel Couce (2005) “Plataforma para el Desarrollo de Modelos Asociativos Neuroborrosos” In: Proceedings of the XII International Symposium on Electrical Engineering (SIE 2005), ISBN 959-250-201-3, pp. 72-76. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Yanet Rodríguez, María M García, Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon (2005) “Explicación Basada en Casos Utilizando Conjuntos Borrosos para un Sistema Experto Conexionista” In: XI International Convention “Informática 2005”, ISBN 959-7164-87-6. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Yanet Rodríguez, María M Garcia, Rafael Bello, Rafael Falcon (2005) “Extending CBR-ANN Hybrid Models Using Fuzzy Sets” In: Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain (ICNN&B), ISBN 0-7803-9422-4, pp. 1755-1760. [][BibTeX]
 
 
Rafael Falcon, Yanet Rodríguez (2004) “NeuroDeveloper 2.0: A Computational Tool for the Artificial Neural Networks Development in Presence of Fuzzy Traits” In: X International Convention “Informática 2004”, ISBN 959-237-117-2. [][BibTeX]
 
 
 
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